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📍 Montreal, Quebec
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
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https://youtu.be/zcHEulB-uwE
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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️
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abolish russia earth society has progressed beyond the need for a russia
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The Breakdown AB
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"This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist." Official statement from the NDP.
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That shape is insane! I’m beginning to think gerrymandering is why American electoral districts don’t have names.
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In Quebec you know which parties support and oppose a referendum. It’s been a debate out in the open for decades. In Alberta it comes out of nowhere. The party pushing for a referendum did not run on it. And they turn out to be more than 50% separatists.
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George Pearkes
about 5 hours ago
Tired: Bsky is Lib propaganda Wired: Bsky is Chinese propaganda Inspired: Bsky is Canadian propaganda
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Sylvain Ouellet
about 10 hours ago
Why Montreal’s Metro Is the Most Beautiful in North America
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Superbe vidéo faite par un Montréalais à l'attention des touristes afin de leur montrer toute la beauté et la diversité des stations de métro à Montréal.
#polmtl
@stm.info
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Why Montreal’s Metro Is the Most Beautiful in North America
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https://youtu.be/LBwUkoSZdcI
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Luigi de Guzman
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DC Statehood Now
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I think what bothers me about the kind of left-populism that only talks about “taxing the rich” is that it feels completely ignorant about uncurious about other countries as models. Like, you want the social programs of Sweden? Fair. So tell us about the tax system of Sweden.
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I found this funny. Two kids biking with dolls in miniature child seats on the back of their bikes.
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“On Finch Avenue East in the postwar suburbs of North York and Scarborough, a bus (both express and local) is scheduled to come better than every three minutes during rush hour, every four minutes through the middle of the day, and about every six minutes even at 11 at night.”
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Isaiah Bishop
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I would love it if the US stopped bombing things
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For all its issues, this is the appeal of AirBnB honestly. When you want more options than an expensive hotel downtown and a cheap one out by a highway somewhere you don’t actually want to be.
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Futurewise
1 day ago
Why is Futurewise always talking about stacked flats? A đź§µ (1/5)
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Urban Truth Collective
1 day ago
“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” — Union of Concerned Scientists. Their profit, your cost. Pleased to support
@ucs.org
in sharing/boosting their important new article below, with our newest
@urbantruth.bsky.social
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#UrbanTruth
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It's Jamie
3 days ago
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Projet Montréal
2 days ago
Montréal demeure une référence nord-américaine en matière de vélo. Mais entre projets suspendus, budget réduit et pression pour redonner de la place à l’auto, plusieurs signaux inquiètent. 👉 On vous résume la vidéo de Oh The Urbanity! dans notre article :
projetmontreal.org/nouvelles/mo...
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Dedicated detour signs for cyclists on the REV Saint-Denis. In anticipation of the road being pedestrianized for a week (Montreal Comic Arts Festival).
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Big box parking lots are not my favourite places in the world, but this one at least has a bike share station and EV charging.
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Canada’s emergency alert system treats “there was a child abduction (and/or custody dispute) 500 km away, here’s the license plate” with the same severity as “take immediate shelter, there’s a tsunami coming and Donald Trump is trying to nuke it”.
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Cellphone data shows a decline of 42% in Canadians visiting the United States, higher than the 25% drop found in border crossing estimates. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the biggest decrease (65%). We visited there in 2019.
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“The market cannot provide affordable housing.” And yet, have you noticed that some housing markets are much more affordable than others?
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“Cities aren’t loud. Cities, when their hockey team is in the playoffs, are loud.”
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New cargo bike rental service in Boulder, Colorado!
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One thing I find really interesting is that conservative governments in Canada (like in Ontario and Alberta) are less polarized against transit than US Republicans — but *more* polarized (or at least more aggressive) against bike lanes.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
3 days ago
one day, this constant, endless, exhausting, humiliating horseshit is just going to stop and it will never start again.
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Anh Khoi Do
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Le Québec : « Okay, au-delà de trois étages, ça prend deux cages d'escaliers. » La Suisse : « Chérie, j'ai bâti un immeuble de vingt-cinq étages avec une cage d'escaliers en Suisse ! »
www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/t...
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The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that it’s supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe that’s unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment it’s not like any other service.
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“Typical recent parks offer little seating, little shade, few trees and no reason to linger. There is never a café, too rarely a washroom, rarely a water feature. Playgrounds, sculpture and chin-up bars are thrown together seemingly at random.”
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
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The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
https://youtu.be/zcHEulB-uwE
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Jean-François Rheault
4 days ago
L’aventure multimodale près de chez soi!
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
4 days ago
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
What an insane thing to say at this point. What the fuck is going on?
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Carney says Canada open to deeper integration with U.S. ahead of CUSMA review
Speaking to a room of progressive policy experts in Toronto Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney offered some insight into what Canada has offered up ahead of an official review of the Canada-U.S.-Mex...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/canada-open-to-deeper-integration-with-us-in-some-sectors-carney-says/
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TransitCenter
4 days ago
The essay’s argument actually aligns with our research into how to get people to take action for public transit. “Transit fights climate change” isn’t a motivating frame; “ensuring everyone can get around with dignity” is. We still push transit as a climate solution, just with different messaging.
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Yet Another Urbanist
4 days ago
Yesterday, I uploaded a video on why protecting trees requires building dense cities:
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Protecting Trees Means Densifying Cities
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https://youtu.be/zneKVi6Rn44
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Alex Diaz-Papkovich
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This CBC essay about a family moving from Toronto to Saskatchewan is framed as escaping “busy city life” but most of it is about how cars and gridlock made their lives unbearable
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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People who don’t bike anywhere often have virtually zero knowledge of how to do it. What routes exist, which ones are safe, how they connect or go places. Same thing behind the “we have enough bike lanes!” crowd.
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Just listened to a podcast where someone randomly commented that if you want to easily kill yourself, you can “just go to Canada”. It’s wild how medically-assisted dying is so prominent in people’s views of Canada.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
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It’s very good to finally see a major eastern publication highlight the fact that that this movement exists primarily because it’s core members fried their brains on the internet and are now compelled to suicide bomb their own country.
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The American convention of referring to politicians with their past titles always sounds funny to be. “President Obama”? He’s no longer president! (Carney’s following it here but it’s not the norm in Canadian politics. People would not typically say “Prime Minister Harper” post-2015.)
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Nobody loves their city like people from Chicago. And I can’t blame them! I think Chicago is my favourite city in the US that I’ve visited. (Granted, I’ve never been to New York.)
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I use a Mac now for video editing. But I used to love using and tinkering around with Linux. I used it on and off since 2004 or so. I think the world would be better off with more free & open source software.
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Robert Zaichkowski
5 days ago
Thanks
@spacing.bsky.social
for publishing my article about the need to make completing the 72 km Loop Trail - and other trail gaps across the city - an issue for this October's municipal election.
#BikeTO
#TOpoli
#VisionZero
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A Different Kind of Cycling Campaign - Spacing Toronto
During Toronto’s last three elections, cycling campaigns focused primarily on on-street infrastructure including protected bike lanes and Vision Zero road safety improvements. Think of Cycle Toronto’s...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2026/05/08/a-different-kind-of-cycling-campaign/
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Rodney 🚧🚇
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Cities in Ontario: literally don’t have power to do anything Cities in California: I’m gonna build a neighborhood right on top of a state project corridor
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Vancouver’s West End is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the country. I’d love for everyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit there. Tall buildings sound scary when they’re proposed. But when they already exist, they usually just feel like a normal part of the housing mix.
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“Montreal’s long-promised plan to turn downtown’s McGill College Ave. into a large pedestrian square has been postponed for at least two years as the new administration reassesses the project.”
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Plan to turn McGill College into pedestrian square and honour Oscar Peterson postponed
The future of a linear park in the heart of downtown is uncertain under the city's new administration.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/plan-to-turn-mcgill-college-into-pedestrian-square-and-honour-oscar-peterson-postponed/
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Genuinely conflicted on municipal amalgamation. Political fragmentation seems to encourage NIMBYism and dysfunctional politics in a lot of ways. But local control has also helped cycling and pedestrian infrastructure gaining a foothold in lots of cities.
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I hate this so much. Alberta is working on provincial legislation to ban and/or remove bike lanes. Like Doug Ford in Ontario.
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Bell: Alberta to bring in law with power to rip out bike lanes and stop new ones
The Alberta government is bringing out a new law where existing bike lanes could be removed and new bike lanes would not get the green light
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/bell-alberta-to-bring-in-law-with-power-to-rip-out-bike-lanes-and-stop-new-ones/wcm/bfa2f849-1745-4965-9774-7856c58c2d1e
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Calgary Transit considering different pricing structures, including distance-based fares and different peak vs. off-peak fares.
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Surge pricing or higher costs for longer rides? Calgary Transit considering fare structure changes | CBC News
Calgary Transit is considering Uber-like surge pricing that could see riders pay higher fares at certain times of the day, as well as pay more to travel farther across the city. The agency will consul...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-transit-fare-structure-considerations-9.7191352
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Will Stancil
6 days ago
There’s a bizarre social consensus, somehow strongest among the elites and institutional leaders of the nation, that all this deranged behavior simply amounts to nothing - bluster and chaos sitting atop a fundamental normalcy.
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BARO
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I love how the short census is just -What is your name -How many people in your household -Are you sure that's how many? -Diplomats hiding in your home? -Speak french as a 1st language? -Speak french fluently? -Speak some french? -Learning french? -Planning to learn french? -Spoke but forgot french?
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I know this describes a lot of people on here.
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Local nerd disappointed he didn’t get the long form census
TATAMAGOUCHE, NS - An event five years in anticipation turned to bitter disappointment this week, as a local census dweeb did not receive the coveted long form questionnaire.
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census/
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